Topic: Happy New Years! Seventh alt coin thread! - page 52. (Read 34194 times)

Hey,

My buddy Tiger has put together some power supply packages....  seems pretty worth it, and right up your guys alley:

Total 2250W PSU Power Supply Kit 6-8pin GPU mining #Ethereum and more

Let me know what you think.  If you email him and deal with him directly and mention my username, you will get 15% off. (save you and him the ebay fees)
[email protected]

meant as in they are not releasing a titan under the ampere lineup like previously rumored, leaving it to the volta

OK, for some perspective - previous mining on my R9 290 cards was under LINUX running qtminer, as I never got Genoil working on those under LINUX.

Moved one into it's "new home" today - and found that they work a lot differently under Windows 7 with Claymore.

16.9.2 drivers (motherboard has a A10 I'm NOT willing to abandon, and the blockchain drivers don't support the A10 and don't seem to matter to the R9 290 ANYWAY).

1100 core 1450 memory seems to be the highest "stable" setting in Afterburner.
BIOS updated from TheStilt, but it was one of his mid-level "amount of undervolt" versions.
30.6 Mhash, 78C temp at 96% fan after I pulled the mounting bracket off (was about 81 with the bracket at 100% fan, I'm not sure why I didn't get around to doing that sooner).

Seems to be eating about 260 watts at the wall on a lightly loaded EVGA G2 1300, so probably about 240 watts actual card draw.
I'd also forgotten these were 8 + 6 power cards (I THOUGHT they were 8 + so it looks like this rig will also get my pair of R9 280x cards at some point - which should put me a little under my "target power budget".
I do have a 7750 parked on the 3'd "16x" slot on the motherboard as it doesn't interfere with any riser slots there, and I wanted to put it in SOMETHING (it will probably be doing D.Net RC5-72 work along with the iGPU on the A10).

It's not QUITE vaccum level loud - but once I get a pair of these AND the pair of R9 280x cards in it, it's NOT going to be quiet....


(edit) I am now remembering part of the reason I limited clocks on these.
I have 2 in the "new home" machine now - and one is running 80C even at 1050/1250 while the other is at 73 at 1100/1450 - both in an A/C room.
I think I need to pull the one out, pull it apart, and redo the HS compound or some such, it shouldn't be running THAT much hotter than the other.

I also note that NEITHER is stable running D.Net at 1100 core at all (even when I drop the memory clocks to min, which is reasonable for D.Net work as it barely sips memory at all) - which indicates a GPU side heat issue of some sort.
Keep getting "driver resets" that kill OpenCL entirely on the R9 cards when I try to do so.

 Nvidia already did that with the Titan V, I wouldn't count that as a rumor.

I have never needed/required an overclock for gaming.   The amount of fuss, for the literal sliver of performance is 100% not worth it.

gamers are just concerned about their game playing.

If the bleeding-edge type really must do what they want, then, they are surely a tiny minority and this scheme seems to fit that bill rather nicely.


I still think miners will use gamer GPU's.   Don't underestimate the ability for people to add efficiency where it has not been focused yet.....

Ya, not exactly sure about it myself, but you have to understand 98% of gamers dont ever changes the settings, they game with stock GPU settings... so its a win-win for them if they go this route

I hope they don't go with the overclock upgrade idea. Sounds horrible for gaming 

From the more recent info i read...

Volta is reserved for AI and research GPU's
Turing is reserved for the P+ series mining cards
Ampere is reserved for the gaming GPU's

Rumor is it that the new Ampere cards will have locked BIOS and locked settings so they are unable to be easily OC or settings changed to deter them from being used in crypto mining, with some sort of purchasable flashing software that links a game to a flash for the extremist. basically you would purchase a "overclock" upgrade for the GPU and it would be applied during the startup of that game.

The Turing cards from what i understand are going to follow the path of basically ASIC's, there are going to be different model cards that the core CPU on the card is designed around that specific algo
Example: Turing P-X17, designed for best for X17 coins...

Another Rumor i read is that the 2080ti is going to be the peak of the Ampere card line, that the Titan models are moving over to the Volta chips only and turned into entry level AI/Encoding series cards, removing it from the Ampere lineup

Nicehash miner uses Excavator for those algo's and that software with the latest update is very complex, it runs a constant variable intensity level, so it will continue to try and improve itself to gain higher hashrates while mining and has shown to be very unreliable. Most likely its a OC/Mem setting conflicting with the intensity changing. I actually removed that software from my list when they released the latest 4.4 version due to these random issues.

Honestly since your so new i would look into using a more simpler miner that is using more reliable software already programmed, i would use something like NemoMiner and just change your wallet address and amount of cards based on the readme file and let it do its thing. You can use NemoMiner on Nicehash to profit switch, but use better software outside of their branded excavator software.

There is zero hard information about the Nvidia 2000 series available yet, other than the pretty firm "they will be 20xx not 11xx naming", at this time.

The more recent rumours say the consumer cards will be named "Turing", but I suspect they will still be Volta arch cards just no "tensor cores" as the only real difference from the existing Volta Titan and V100 arch.
The name makes no sense though, Touring was an early "AI" concept type guy....

R9 290 is definitely memory limited on ETH, I DID do quite a bit of testing on that back when I was mining ETH on all of mine.
I'm not 100% sure where the limit is though, might depend on memory type too not just the clocks.
I'm not sure what memory my R9 290 Sapphire Reference cards have on them, something I'll get to look at when I move them and test on their new home.

 Ask me again next week, I'm getting ready to move a couple of them from an old "2 card" rig onto a new riser rig and I'll have it on the power meter to do measurements as part of that process.

better late then never


No real info on Nvidia 2070 2080 or 2080ti

Does anyone here maybe have some info about new nvidia cards like price or characteristics or are we still in the dark about them?Also cant belive that i missed seventh thread and saw it just now

Which wasn't very profitable. It would have been foolish to mine them unless you had free electricity.

Yeah end of 2015 and early 2016 were the best days of ETH mining. I remember ETH hitting like $1

Back then the king GPU was the 7970/280x. Those puppies at low DAG hashed at like 26-27Mhs. Each card made like 1 ETH per GPU per day.

After close to 2 years of abuse in the gulag, the Nanos and 390s in the first farm, at its glory days, delivered 6.6GH of ETH hash. The just kept working, the warehouse had its fair share of heat issues, but we solved that with installing additional outtake fans and blowers.

I owe these guys alot and helped ROI the entire mining farms several folds.

Currently, no more ETH mining and got them mining Monero/Cryptonite - with much lower power consumption, allowing us to slowly build the ZEC farm with 1060s and 1070s.

Back then end 2015-early 2016, ETH was as low as 4$ peaked at 20$. We hoarded a handsome amount of ETH before selling them in batches at 150$, 400$ and 1000$....  :-)

Solo mining ETH got us 12-15 blocks per day back then.... those were the days.

Pro tip: I cleaned and dusted the first batch of 390s (with baby-wipes, compressor powered air-duster), .... after all that 2 out 5 cards, couldn't power up.... but the subsequent batches of 390s transferred (without cleaning) to the riser-less format worked from the first boot on SMOS. So now, I clean and dust them lightly AFTER putting them to work - worked every time. As long as fans and cooling fins are reasonably clean, I cant complain and cant possibly put them back to pristine condition.

Yikes. What is with that rust.

Did you leave it mining outside?

finally found the 3 x 290s that i got way back in 2015.

Its modded with Stilt BIOS and with front metal grill removed for added cooling.



Since we are on GPU cards of yesteryears, this one below is revived to full riserless format. One down, 5 more rigs to go.
The R9 Nanos were tuned back in 2016, with Heliox -100mV ROM, 800/500 timing and set with SMOS to mine Cryptonite at NH pushing 5700h/s at around 780watts total. A single Delta 2400w PSU will power 2 rigs like these.
Tuned them as "weak" as possible (like Cryptonite/XMR), before I decide how to make them fit into the current farm without tripping the DB. These Nanos have 4GB HBM RAM, so it will be waste if I couldn't leverage them to the best algo. Any suggestions?

let me share my post in 2013 about my r9 290 blower


haha